Benny Sudakov (born October 1969) is an Israeli mathematician, who works mainly on Hungarian-style

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many a ...

. He was born in Tbilissi, Georgia, and completed his undergraduate studies at Tbilisi State University in 1990. After emigrating to Israel, he received his

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from

Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...

in 1999, under the supervision of

Noga Alon Noga Alon ( he, נוגה אלון; born 17 February 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of ...

. From 1999 until 2002 he held a Veblen Research Instructorship, a joint position between

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

and the

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. Until 2007 he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. Until 2014, he was a professor at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

. In July 2013 Sudakov joined

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as a professor. Sudakov has broad interests within the field of combinatorics, having written papers on

extremal combinatorics Extremal combinatorics is a field of combinatorics, which is itself a part of mathematics. Extremal combinatorics studies how large or how small a collection of finite objects ( numbers, graphs, vectors, sets, etc.) can be, if it has to satisfy ...

Ramsey theory Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of mathematics that focuses on the appearance of order in a substructure given a structure of a known size. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask ...

random graph In mathematics, random graph is the general term to refer to probability distributions over graphs. Random graphs may be described simply by a probability distribution, or by a random process which generates them. The theory of random graphs ...

s, and

positional game A positional game is a kind of a combinatorial game for two players. It is described by: *Xa finite set of elements. Often ''X'' is called the ''board'' and its elements are called ''positions''. *\mathcala family of subsets of X. These subset ...

s. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meeting ...

. He gave an invited talk at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rena ...

in 2010 at

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, on the topic of "Combinatorics".

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sudakov, Benny Living people 20th-century Israeli mathematicians 21st-century Israeli mathematicians Combinatorialists Tel Aviv University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Academic staff of ETH Zurich Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Princeton University faculty Institute for Advanced Study people Scientists from Tbilisi Tbilisi State University alumni 1969 births Georgian emigrants to Israel